On Mon Oct 4 10, Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 06:17:46AM +0000, Xin LI wrote:
> > Author: delphij
> > Date: Mon Oct 4 06:17:45 2010
> > New Revision: 213398
> > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/213398
> >
> > Log:
> > Clarify the combination effect of -P and -f to make it clear.
>
> While you're at it, it would be nice to add a note that this doesn't
> work with all file systems. In case of eg. ZFS the data won't be
> overwritten.
isn't this detail already being covered by the existing note in the BUGS
section?
"The -P option assumes that the underlying file system is a fixed-block
file system. UFS is a fixed-block file system, LFS is not. In addition,
only regular files are overwritten, other types of files are not."
cheers.
alex
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